Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table, credited to Andrew Lang, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table by Andrew Lang. Read in English by David Wales The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens… It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth century, just after the Romans withdrew from Britain… the stories came to be handed down from father to son, in Brittany (whose people are of the same family as the Welsh) as well as in Wales and England… [story-tellers altered the stories to suit their times down through the centuries] …and so in their altered and historically inaccurate form they have reached us at the present day. …Sir Thomas Malory obtained the material for his “Morte d’Arthur,” which was written in 1470. This is the most famous of the early books of Arthurian legend, and it is from the “Morte d’Arthur” that most of the stories in this book are taken…. The language throughout has been modified with a view to making the legends more easy of study. - Summary by Book Introduction and david wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 4:18:16

Catalogue topics

• myth
• Round Table
• King Arthur

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 4:15
2. 01 - Part 1 Story 1 The Drawing Of The Sword — 7:34
3. 02 - Part 1 Story 2 The Sword Excalibur — 2:59
4. 03 - Part 1 Story 3 How The Round Table Began — 6:17
5. 04 - Part 1 Story 4 The Story Of Sir Balin — 11:30
6. 05 - Part 1 Story 5 What Beaumains Asked Of The King Part 1 — 22:55
7. 06 - Part 1 Story 5 What Beaumains Asked Of The King Part 2 — 18:24
8. 07 - Part 1 Story 6 How Morgan Le Fay Tried To Kill King Arthur — 5:31
9. 08 - Part 1 Story 7 The Passing Of Merlin — 2:33
10. 09 - Part 2 Story 1 The Quest Of The Holy Graal — 6:23
11. 10 - Part 2 Story 2 The Coming Of The Holy Graal — 3:51
12. 11 - Part 2 Story 3 The Adventure Of Sir Galahad — 7:57
13. 12 - Part 2 Story 4 How Sir Lancelot Saw A Vision And Repented Of His Sins — 4:27
14. 13 - Part 2 Story 5 The Adventure Of Sir Percivale — 4:48
15. 14 - Part 2 Story 6 An Adventure Of Sir Lancelot — 3:44
16. 15 - Part 2 Story 7 An Adventure Of Sir Gawaine — 2:15
17. 16 - Part 2 Story 8 The Adventure Of Sir Bors — 3:14
18. 17 - Part 2 Story 9 Adventure Of Sir Galahad — 6:18
19. 18 - Part 2 Story 10 Sir Lancelot Meets Sir Galahad And They Part For Ever — 4:00
20. 19 - Part 2 Story 11 How Sir Galahad Found The Graal And Died Of That Finding — 7:26
21. 20 - Part 3 Story 1 The Fight For The Queen — 16:25
22. 21 - Part 3 Story 2 The Fair Maid Of Astolat — 31:04
23. 22 - Part 4 Story 1 Lancelot And Guenevere — 51:56
24. 23 - Part 4 Story 2 The End Of It All — 22:30

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